29 Video Game Facts That Look Better on an Old CRT TV

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29 Video Game Facts That Look Better on an Old CRT TV

You kids might not remember this, but you used to have to clear your schedule and do some stretches when your friend asked you to help move their TV. It was quite the ordeal. On the plus side, there was usually some pizza and beer involved, which would kick off a night of gaming quite nicely.

So, for you salty old gamers out there, let’s wipe our brows, ice our backs and get into some of the more classic gaming facts on this list before the pizza and beer gets here. Don’t worry, youngins, we got some soda for you too.

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones is a protest hero in an old Czech video game. DOB RODRUZSTVI INDIANA JONESE vaclayskem na namesti V Praze dne 16. 1.1989 The text-based game The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1989 (yes, that its title) places the adventurer archaeologist in the middle of the Velvet Revolution against the Communist government. No one knows who made it. GRACKED.COM

PlayStation 4

CRACKED SNEAKING A PLAYSTATION 4 THROUGH SELF CHECKOUT AS FRUIT JEVRS SNOLLIO SONY PS4 In 2019, a 19-year-old from Nice, France snuck a PlayStation 4 through a supermarket self-checkout as fruit - he weighed it on the scale, then stuck the printed €9.24 (£8.10) price tag on it.

FIFA

CRACKED Austria tells Sony to refund FIFA Ultimate Team card pack buyers in 2023. In March 2023, an Austrian court made a decision that FIFA Ultimate Team's card packs went against the country's gambling laws and told Sony to give money back to people who had bought them. 92 88 CM 90 CM см 94 см PIRLO PIRLO PIRLO PIRLO 73 PAC 91 DRI 70 PAC 90 DRI 75 PAC 90 DR 76 PAC DRI 79 SHO DEF 79 SHO 68 DEF 93 76 80 SHO 71 DEF 85 SHO DER 91 PAS 64 PHY 93 PAS 65 PHY

Mario and Luigi

L M Originally, Mario and Luigi were identical twins When Luigi was introduced in Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. his character was just the same as Mario, but green. The Luigi we all love exists only because of the Super Mario Bros. 2 U.S. release, which was actually a reskin of an Arabian-inspired game called Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic. Luigi was redesigned to replace the tall, lightfooted Mama character from the original Japanese title. GRACKED.COM

Fallout 3

Fallout 3 CRACKED.COM Due to nuclear warfare still being a sensitive subject in Japan, the Japanese version of Fallout 3 does not give the player the option to detonate the Megaton nuclear bomb.

The PainStation

This game actually hurt people who sucked at it. CRACKED.COM The PainStation, a German creation, is a two-player Pong-like game. Players can get shocked, whipped, or burned by the console.

Zelda

A ton of Christian imagery had to be replaced for the US-version. CRACKED.COM You can still see a cross on Link's shield, but other elements were adjusted due to Nintendo of America's religion ban: priests and churches became sages and sanctuaries, and what we know as The Book of Magic was originally The straight-up Holy Bible.

Capcom

CAPCOM WAS AGAINST MIRROR MATCHES. STREET FIGHTER Why would anyone want to play the same character? the top brass said when the American team pitched the idea. Meanwhile, players were frustrated they couldn't do exactly that. The idea got traction eventually, though, and Street Fighter II: Champion Edition came out. CRACKED.COM

The Chain Chomp

SUPER MARIO The Chain Chomp monsters in Mario games + are based on a dog. When Shigeru Miyamoto was a child, his neighbor had a chained dog who constantly barked. CRACKED.COM

Spacewar

ASTEROIDS Spacewar is just like Asteroids, only better- + and it came first. Spacewar was a two-player game where you could shoot the other player, there was a black hole in the middle of the screen, and the star field was based on actual star fields. Asteroids: 1979. Spacewar: 1962. CRACKED.COM

Grand Theft Auto 3

GTA 3 features a mission called Two-Faced Tanner, in which you're sent to kill an undercover cop called Tanner, who's described as strangely animated and more or less useless outside of his car. This is a shot at the protagonist of the Driver series, undercover cop John Tanner, and the series' lack of on-foot abilities compared to GTA. mage eleny CRACKED.COM

Fallout: New Vegas

YOUR FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS CHARACTER WATCHES + CUTSCENES IN A ROOM. Whenever a cutscene plays, your character is teleported in front of a screen that plays it. You can't see that because the camera is fixed in first-person view. CRACKED.COM

Wii

CRACKED Hold Your Wee for a Wii killed a woman. In 2007, KDND ran a contest called Hold Your Wee for a Wii, where the person who drank the most water without peeing would win a $250 Wii video game system. The station urged contestants to drink as much water as they could, resulting in the death of 28 year old Jennifer Lea Strange by water intoxication. !!M e-107.9 Vd the end Wii all the hits GAME INICLU JEU INCLUS JUEGO INCLUXD Wii

Veggies

Pink TENDER A A VEGGIE POLICE KB45 C DELLA NOTE 46279860I VIDEO GAME adidas TENSON can Done Bibal - - INTOINO 12 Kidalo It's a veggie and if you want dessert, you have to taste it. GRACKED.COM YOR The NIH spent $1.55 million on a video game app called Kiddio: Food Fight. In it, you play a mother KB4 persuading her kid to taste veggies. It did not actually prove popular among parents, who have better 60 I things to do in their spare time.

China

In China, kids' video game time is strictly limited. On week days, minors can play online games up to 90 minutes per day, but they can't play at all between 10 PM and 8 AM. On weekends, they can play for up to three hours a day. CRACKED.COM

Duke Nukem Forever

'Duke Nukem Forever' had the longest development period for any video game. CRACKED.COM Officially announced on April 28th, 1997 by devel- oper 3D Realms, it took 14 years and 43 days for the game to be released (on June 10th, 2011). It has a 5.5/10 rating on IGN.

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden forced a video game to change its title. In 2019, the band sued the developer of the retro-style game lon Maiden for $2 million, claiming it was an incredible blatant infringement on their trademark. The game people caved and renamed their product lon Fury. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Ghostbusters) CRACKED.COM Considered by some fans to be the true third film in the series, Ghostbusters: The Video Game sees the four original spectral exterminators reunite for a chaotic romp through various ghoul-infested locales throughout New York City.

NFTs

A video game lets you steal art for real (or at least NFTs). The Crypto Doctrine is as close as a game can get to art theft, in that you can steal actual NFTs, for real. It's only fitting that the NFTs were made without the consent of the original artists. CRACKED.COM

Street Fighter

Easter eggs in video game movies street Fighter Bison blows up ships using the Street Fighter II control panel from the arcade game. CRACKED.COM

That One Familiar Voice

One woman is the voice of tons of your favorite video game heroes. TWITE Ashly Burch got her start all the way back in 2008 with a show she and her brother made called Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? Since then, she's lent her voice to huge games like Life is Strange, Valorant, and Horizon Zero Dawn. CRACKED.COM

Tencent Games

Tencent Games, known for Clash of clans, earned more video game revenue in 2018 САРСОМ UBISOFT Nintendo® EA Tencent Games ACTIVISION BLIZZARD than Activision Blizzard, EA, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and Capcom COMBINED. CRACKED.COM

Spot: The Video Game

Spot: The Video Game RELEASED ON: TOO GODDAMN MANY THINGS ZUP PROOD PRESENTS SE T IM THE VIDEO GAMEN THE GAME CRITICS SAY CRACKED COM TWO THUMBS UP What's lamer than making the circle in your logo your mascot? Making a video game with that mascot that is just a 2,500 year old Chinese board game.

Earthworm Jim

Bugs in pop culture Earthworm Jim A simple earthworm that got access to a space- worthy supersuit is just the tip of the strange iceberg that is this classic video game from the '90s. CRACKED.COM

Prince of Persia

29 Video Game Facts That Look Better on an Old CRT TV

Donkey Kong 64

The Donkey Kong 64 development team encountered a bug that would cause the game to crash, and eventually discovered that using a memory expansion kept the crashes from occurring. DONKEY KOHO64 So instead of fixing the bug, they bundled the memory expansion with the game for free. It was either very brilliant or just plain old lazy. CRACKED COM

Wing Commander

The game Wing Commander crashes with an error message that would read EMM386 Memory manager error. when exited. EJECT EJECT nation LOS TUTE LOIS coma NAVICATION USA as en Nana Gunc Lazer cannen DESTINATION Ner 2 ANGE NOZ km HAPPY Objective This bug was made into a feature by one of the game programmers by changing the error message to Thank you for playing Wing Commander! C:\wc1> CRACKED.COM

007

CRACKED.COM The multiplayer mode that defined GoldenEye 007 for many, was created on the sly. The game was already running behind so the devs knew they'd never get permission from the higher-ups at Nintendo and Rare. They just did it (in a month's time) and added it right before release. PLAYERS MILLION NN SELLER CHOICE de 1998 INTERNATIVE 1997- ARTS ART Designed FIV NH Rumble Party GAME OF THE YEAR - - H - TEEN T 4015 111 NILE

Battlefield 3

CRACKED COM THE BUSHES IN BATTLEFIELD 3 WERE JUST TREES SUNKEN INTO THE GROUND The bushes you see are just the tips of the trees peeking through the ground at different angles; appearing to be unique to each other, but are really just cheap shortcuts made by the developers.

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